Arizona, United States.- Members of the Sinaloa Cartel would have fired at a United States drone from the border with Mexico, according to a video shared by an American journalist.
In the video, which border correspondent Jaeson Jones said was taken by a private security company, armed men wearing hoods are seen.
What is presumed to be agents of the security firm monitor them and affirm that they are the “Chapitos”.
“Is that the top of the mountain?” asks one of them, after which he receives an affirmative answer.
“So they are the ‘Chapito'”.
“He’s trying to shoot this way,” another is heard saying.
In the video, an officer refers to one of the gunmen as just “a kid.”
Then one of the alleged “Chapitos” is seen shooting.
??| Members of the Sinaloa cartel, in Mexico, fire at a US reconnaissance drone 300 meters from the border. pic.twitter.com/lu1PtvTzD1
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According to Jones, who spoke with the extreme right-wing chain Newsmax in which he collaborates, it is a Sinaloa Cartel base just 300 meters from the border.
“These members of the Cartel were literally shooting towards the United States against this drone,” he said.
“When you think about the deadly fentanyl or the meth being spilled in this country, Sinaloans want control of certain parts so they can freely move the deadly fentanyl around the country. There, it’s ground zero for fentanyl in the Arizona area.” .
According to Jones, the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) in Phoenix seized 25 million fentanyl pills last year out of 55 million seized nationwide.
“We talk about migration all the time, but when you watch this video you can see how out of control our border has become. It’s much broader than just migration,” he said.
